Dress-stay attachment



(No Model.)

' E. M.. D. LANDENBERG'ER.

DRESS STAY ATTACHMENT- I No. 591,170. PatentedOot. 5,1897.

lJNirnn STATES ATENT OFFIC EMMA M. 1). LANDENBERGER, or ST.-LOUIS,MISSOURI.

DRESS-STAY ATTACHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591 ,170, dated October5, 1897.

Application filed August 28, 1896. Serial No. 604,173. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMA M. D. LANDEN- BERGER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Dress-StayAttachments, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

My invention relates to attachments for the top and bottom of adress-stay; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the top clip or attachment of thestay. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the bottom clip and swivel-pieceof the stay. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the upper end of the stay,showing the clip attached. Fig. 4 is a like View of the lower end of thestay with the clip and swivel attached.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a dress-stay which is made ofthe ordinary material-such as bone, whalebone, or steel. These stays areplaced upon the market in various lengths and are purchased by the useras needed. The user very frequently finds that a stay is too long forthe position it has to occupy, and it has been the practice to break orcut off the stay to make it the proper length. There is a seriousobjection to this method from the fact that the broken end presentssharp corners or edges that cut the cloth of the garment, and to obviatethis difficulty is one object of my invention.

Another object of my invention is to provide an attachment for the lowerend or bot tom of the stay which may be readily applied to any stay onthe market. This attachment consists of an arm or cross-piece such as isshown in my Patent No. 531, 68at,issued January 1, 1895, but instead ofattaching the arm directly to the stay and making it a permanent partthereof I attach it to a clip which may be readily applied to the bottomof any stay, where it serves the purpose specified in the patentreferred to.

The clip 2 for the top of the stay is repre sented in Figs. 1 and 3.This clip consists of a piece of metal bent to form an overhanging cap2, that fits over the top of the stay, and the clip is provided Withspreading wings 3, formed with holes or perforations 3, through which athread is passed to stitch the clip to the cover 4 of the stay, as shownin Fig. 3. This clip provides a rounded finished end to the stay. If astay is found to be too long,

the upper end is cut off or broken over as shown in Fig. 3, and the clipis then applied and held in position by the stitches. This provides aready and convenient means for adjusting the length of the stay to theposition that it is to occupy.

The swivel or arm 5 of my patent referred to was, as stated in thepatent, attached directly to the stay and formed a permanent partthereof.

To provide a means of attaching a swivel or arm to any stay on themarket, I pivot the arm by means of a rivet 6 to a clip 7, comprising afront plate 7 3 back plate 7*, and offset 7", as shown in Figs. 2 and4:. This clip is formed to receive the lower end or bottom of the stayand is provided with notches 8 near the upper end on both side edges ofthe plates to receive stitches, by which the attachment is held to thestay. The swivel may be turned to the proper angle, and being attachedto a clip that may be readily applied to any stay upon the market theextent of its use is largely increased by my improvement.

I I claim as my invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture, adressstay attachment comprising a clip provided with means whereby it isadapted to be secured to the lower end of a dress-stay and an arm orplate pivoted to the clip; substantially as described.

2. A dress-stay attachment comprising a clip formed of a front plate anda back plate each having a notched upper end, and the back plate havingan olfset portion below the notched portion, and an arm or plate pivotedto the lower end of the clip, beneath the oifset portion, substantiallyas described.

In presence of--- E. S. KNIGHT, N. FINLEY.

